Microsoft has sued TiVo. Why? Because TiVo sued AT&T. Not to mention some allegations of patent infringement.
Dow Jones reports that Microsoft filed suit against the leading DV recorder manufacturer late Tuesday in the US federal court. Redmond claims that in displaying programming information, TiVo illegally uses technology …

This will be interesting

This is similar to the recent UK patent ruling where the judge ruled the programme scheduling etc was software (I think that was it - can't be bothered to search) so there was no case. This seems similar as it appears to be about the same thing. Whats the bet that this won't be thrown out in the US?

And yes, when I read it the first thing I thought was Microsoft want an agreement out of TIVO. Obviously Microsoft are after some of their technology so they can put it into their crappy media centre.

You've obviously never used it

Given a choice between Tivo and Windows Media Centre (or Center), I'll be spending my money on Windows Media Center (and with the imminent release of the Ceton Cable-card tuner, I'll have that choice). There are features of Tivo that are better than the equivalent features in Media Centre, but overall, WMC is a far more flexible solution than Tivo (which is why it's taken this long for CableLabs to allow end users take full advantage of it).

Tivo is suing AT&T for using a technology that Microsoft delivered to AT&T. Microsoft is responding because it's Microsoft's patent that is under attack, not AT&T's.

Power to i4i...

Sorry, being a bit thick.....

something useful, it’s a pity MickySoft don’t send as much effort into finding the bugs in their crapware.

So can somebody please clearly identify the MickySoft/AT&T technology/product/hardware involved in this case... SO THAT I CAN MAKE SURE I NEVER BUY ANY OF THEIR FUCKING CRAP!!!

I think the ‘merkins have got the war on terror all wrong; Obama should immediately launch a B-52 strike wing against MickySoft and turn Redmond into a big crater in the ground. Then the world will be safe for normal people.

Is there any coincidence that in the Star Wars series of films on of the machines of the evil empire is called an AT-AT (AT&T)

Sueing AT&T IS sueing MS

If you look at the situation with AT&T and MS, you will find that the agreement between the two has MS indemnifying AT&T for any suit growing out of AT&T's use of the MS product (this is a standard license clause - The user if sued will be reimbursed and/or defended by the supplier of the software). Thus MS is actually the one being sued with AT&T being used as a surrogate (who TIVO selected to try to avoid going after the actual claimed infringer - ie: MS).